The Bones Of Benny Gray Chords by Dave Stamey

And the wife he left [D] on Cedar Creek [G] with that old [Em] ranch to run
[C] She sweats and strains [D] from break of day [G] until the [Em] setting sun
[C] She stares across the valley and she [E] says I'd like to [Em] know
[C] But the only ones are talking are [D] them damned old winds that blow
_ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ Out in Western Colorado where the Cedar [C] Creek winds blow
_ [G] From the summit of [Em] the Cerro to the valley [D] far below
_ [G] And that Uncompahgre Valley it's still talked [C] about today
_ _ [G] How they never found the body [F] of a cowboy
any [G] great _
_ _ _ _ The last day may in the year of [C] 78
_ _ [G] He vanished from the side of man.
No one [D] knows his fate
_ [G] It's hard to count his enemies hard to count [C] his friends _
[G] And either way, no one can [F] say who brought him to [G] his end
_ [C] And those Cedar [D] Creek winds [G] they come and fade [Em] away
[C] _ [E] Howling and whispering [C] and they sing [D] say [G] that they're searching
_ [D] always searching _
searching for the bones
Benny Green _ _
[G] _ _ _ He was a husband and a father and a purely [C] dangerous man
He [G] got crosswise with [Em] the law one time for chasing [A] the wrong brands
_ [G] He had his reputation
folks who [C] knew him say
_ [G] Never had a better neighbor [F] than cowboy
_ [G] any great
_ _ Mm-hmm.
He rode the mountain valleys where the San [C] Juan's touch the sky
_ [G] black Canyon [Em] of
Gunnison little blue [D] Mesa high
_ _ [G]
Sappanero and blue and a little [C] simmer on _
[G] this shadow may still cross [F] them, but
Benny [G] Gray's gone
And those [A] Cedar Creek [G] winds they come fade away
[C] Howling and [F] whispering and they [D] sing say that [G] they're searching
always [D] searching _
[F] searching [D] for the bones
[Em] of Benny Green _
[C] And why if you left on Cedar [G] Creek without over [Em] an extra run
[C] Sweats and strains from break [G] of day until [Em] the setting Sun
[C] She stares across the [G] valley and she says I'd like to know
[C] But the only ones are talking [D] all and then
And _ [C] those Cedar [D] Creek winds [G] they come and fade away
[C] _
[D] Howling and whispering [F] and they sing say [G] that they're searching _
[D] always searching
_ searching for the bones
[Em] of Benny Green
_ _ [F] searching [D] for the bones
[Em] of Benny Green
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